At the end of this story, the protagonist quotes Flaubert's remark that "The man is nothing, the work is everything" after the narrator praises his deductive skill. The protagonist of this story beats the pavement with his stick shortly after noticing the wornness of the knees of Vincent Spaulding's trousers. One character in this story becomes suspicious after being asked by Duncan Ross to copy out the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the protagoni
At the end of this story, the protagonist quotes Flaubert's remark that "The man is nothing, the work is everything" after the narrator praises his deductive skill. The protagonist of this story beats the pavement with his stick shortly after noticing the wornness of the knees of Vincent Spaulding's trousers. One character in this story becomes suspicious after being asked by Duncan Ross to copy out the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the protagonist discovers that that task is merely an excuse to keep that character out of his shop so that the antagonists can into a bank. For 10 points, name this Arthur Conan Doyle short story in which Jabez Wilson is ostensibly hired to work for the titular group because of his fiery red hair.
At the end of this story, the protagonist quotes Flaubert's remark that "The man is nothing, the work is everything" after the narrator praises his deductive skill.
“The {Red}-{Headed League}”